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Francis Hopkinson Smith
Engineer, artist, illustrator, and short story writer
American , 1838-1915
United States author, artist and engineer, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, a descendant of Francis Hopkinson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Smith became a contractor in New York City and did much work for the federal government, including the stone ice-breaker at Bridgeport, Connecticut, the jetties at the mouth of the Connecticut River, the foundation for the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, the Race Rock Lighthouse (southwest of Fishers Island, New York) and many life-saving stations. His vacations were spent sketching in the White Mountains, in Cuba and in Mexico.
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Painting ID:: 33026
The Parthenony by way of Papendrecht
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1909
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Francis Hopkinson Smith
Engineer, artist, illustrator, and short story writer
American , 1838-1915
United States author, artist and engineer, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, a descendant of Francis Hopkinson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Smith became a contractor in New York City and did much work for the federal government, including the stone ice-breaker at Bridgeport, Connecticut, the jetties at the mouth of the Connecticut River, the foundation for the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, the Race Rock Lighthouse (southwest of Fishers Island, New York) and many life-saving stations. His vacations were spent sketching in the White Mountains, in Cuba and in Mexico.
. Related Artists to Francis Hopkinson Smith: | William Merritt Chase | giorgio de chirico | Olivier, Woldemar Friedrich | Sir Peter Lely | Harpignies Henri Joseph |
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